This last story was originally inserted into one chapterof the old edition when I expressed my difficult experiencein helping people along this path to free samsara. There weretimes when I felt it was almost impossible to carry on andwanted to give up my charitable work. I then thought ofthis following story which was, once again, from teacherTang Mor Seing. My work has, however, survived by settinga clear goal of helping just one person at a time.Two deities descended from heaven and wanted tohelp someone who deserved to be helped. They disguisedthemselves as street vendors selling cooking oil. The judgementday had arrived, and the two vendors placed two hugebarrels containing cooking oil at the main junction ofthe market place. Instead of selling them at a low price asthey had done for the past few days, they shouted for peopleto bring their own containers and help themselves. No soonerhad the announcement ended than the throng of the crowdrushed to the oil barrels. Everyone tried their best to get asmuch oil out as they could manage. The two disguised godsused their magical power to keep the oil from drying upno matter how much had been taken out. They noticed thatthere was hardly anyone there who felt that he shouldjust get what he needed. A lot of them kept on coming backfor more. The two divine beings shook their heads, felthopeless and thought: “these people are too greedy to behelped.”Finally, there was a man who approached the deitiesand asked for just one small cup of cooking oil. He insistedthat was all he needed. The heavenly beings smiled to eachother and were glad that there was at least one person on earthworthy to be saved. They followed the man to his house andasked whether he wanted to know the way to heaven.The man answered: “No, I don’t want to know the wayto heaven. What I want to know is your secret as to howyou could keep that cooking oil full to the brim in the barrelat all time. If you could tell me that secret, I will be very richand happy.”The two celestial beings suddenly disappeared intothin air and never returned to earth again!